RAILWAY RECORD
GERMAN STREAMLINED ENGINE. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 7.15 pan.) Berlin, June 12. The State Railways announce that a new streamlined engine drawing 200 tons during an official test between Berlin and Hamburg reached 119.80 miles an hour, a world’s record. A British official commented: “We are not dismayed. We still have to put the locomotive Silver Jubilee on the road for which special rolling stock is under construction. Then we shall challenge the German record with confidence.”
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Southland Times, Issue 25311, 14 June 1935, Page 7
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